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MILTON V. NOBLES, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, AND JUDSON HOLCOMB, .OF TOWANDA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS TO TIIEMSELVES AND JOHN C. NOBLES, OF VRUSI'IFORD, NEW YORK Letters Patent No. 67,793, dated August 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, MILTON V. NOBLES, of Elmira, in the county of Chemung, and State of New York, and JUDSONHOLCOMB, Yof Towanda, in the county of Bradford, and State of vP-ennsylvania, have invented certainnew and useful improvements in Broom-Heads; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciticaton, in which- Figure 1 represents a view of a broom made up complete out of one of oui` broom-heads.

Figure 2 represents one of the bands'and clampsdetached from the broom.

Figures 3 and 4 represent the two parts that constitute the clamp `when put together and held by the screw.

, Figure 5 representen. platethatinay be used instead of the longitudinal wires.

Similar letters of' reference where they occur in the separate figures denote like parts of thecontrivance in ull the drawings'.

Our invention consists in the manner ofclamping the broom-corn or other material of whichfthe broom is made, and securing it to handle as 'will be explained, by means of wires or their equivalents, which are, readily and cheaply applied, and easily removed and replaced when-a new broom is to be made. i i

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our inventiomwe will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings. i i l,

, .Onopposite sidcsof the broom-handle A are secured by screws or otherwise the wire 'strapse a, which project thence down to or near to the centre of the broom. The broom-corn or other materiali), of which the broom is to be made, is properly disposed around the handle A, the clamps or bands bb e are put around the broom material, and by means of clamping-buttons ce, whichhave projections del upon them, and screwholes c e through their heads, and a screw,f, with a sleeve, y, on it between the buttons ,these bands, which are in two parts, are secured, and may be adjusted at pleasure. These buttons/cc, as 'showuin iiig."2, also embrace the longitudinal wires a a, so that wherever the wires come together they are rigidly clamped bythe screwsf, and may be at any time disconnected by loosening up the screws. AThis makes a very strong and light broom-head, the wire andY screws being found ready-made in marken-'and the buttons c'wouldbje the only things to befspecially. made, and they can be cast or struck up' at very little expense. Instead Aot' the longitudinal wires a a, plates may be used likcrthat shown at i, iig. 5, in which the partj serves to embrace the handle like a socket, and the part extends down alongpthe brocm,land is furnished with screwfholes m m ni., to receive the screwsf, the other screw-holes, -n n, serving to screw the plates to the broom-handle. The wire-bands or clamps would be used with the plates the same way that they are used in lfig. 1 with the wire straps. If the broom material at any time becomes loose, the screws are first loosened up, the bows or half clamps pushed up, and the screws again r'un down, vand the whole is tight, compact, and firm. i

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim therein as new, and desire to secure,- by Letters Patent, is y i A broom-head composed of the straps oriplates, and the divided bands, thewholeheld together by means of the 'clamping-buttons and screws, and adjustableas well as removable and replaceable, substantially as herein described and represented.

l M. V. NOBLES,

JUDSON HOLCOMB.

Witnesses: i A. B. SToUGnroN, EDM. F. Brown. 

